Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that translations of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary languages; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A00702 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Nily Rozic [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-076	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-028	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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